Mirian Melua Explained

Mirian Melua (Georgian: მირიან მელუა; French: Mirian Méloua; born 28 April 1942) is a French-Georgian engineer and journalist. After a professional career in information systems, he became an expert on Georgian issues with French ministerial institutions and media.[1] [2]

Early life

Melua was born in a small village near Paris, Leuville-sur-Orge, where a part of Georgian political emigration settled in 1922 after the Red Army invaded the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He grew up with a Georgian mother[3] and father,[4] an older brother, Luc,[5] and a younger sister, Elen. He was baptized according to Orthodox Christian practices. His godmother was Veronique Cheidze,[6] the daughter of Nikolay Cheidze, a figure of the February Revolution and the Democratic Republic of Georgia—he would hand over the diplomatic passport of Nikolay Cheidze, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, to Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia on 15 January 2019, in Paris.[7] [8] Melua's godfather was Shalva Skamkochaishvili, president of the Georgian Association in France.[9] He was naturalized at age 14. After graduating high school, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Paris, where he obtained a master's degree. He was called to military service and served for 18 months in the French Forces in Germany.[1]

Career

Information systems

Melua had a scientific, technical, and business career in the field of information systems in four companies, IBM; Brown, Boveri & Cie; Banque Populaire; and BNP Paribas. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his first jobs were to improve the real-time analysis of mass-spectrometry methods in IBM's French development laboratory (located in Corbeil-Essonnes) and the radar guidance of French rocket-tracking in Guiana (located in Kourou). In the early 1980s, he was appointed the director of information systems. At Brown Bovery France, he installed the management application of electric motors deliveries one day after the order. Later, at Banque Populaire, he merged the information systems of five local banks. At Groupe BNP, he was in charge of the retail banking general information system for France, before being nominated as the general secretary for Information System and Organization.[10] In the 1990s, he joined Groupe BNP Switzerland and set up information systems for three subsidiaries—UEB, BNP, and Paribas[11] —in corporate and institutional banking and in market activities.[12]

Journalism

Melua received his first official press card in 1959 from a regional newspaper, La Gazette de l’Île-de-France, led by journalists Jean Poilvet and Joseph Barsalou from the French Resistance. He received his most recent official press card in 2017 from the Année francophone internationale, an institution working with the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. He formerly wrote articles for newspapers such as Usine nouvelle[13] and AGEFI.[14]

In October 2003, he founded a monthly newsletter, Les Infos Brèves France Géorgie, for diplomats, companies, academics, students, artists, athletes, and the general public. The 182nd newsletter was published in December 2018.[15]

He participates in several publications in Tbilisi, such as La Vie en Géorgie[16] and Agenda Georgia.[17] He also contributes to Regard sur l’Est in Paris.[18] [19]

Expert in Georgian issues

From 2004 to 2014, he was an administrator of the Comité de Liaison pour la Solidarité avec l’Europe de l’Est, a non-governmental organization working on Eastern European issues funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[20] He was in charge of Georgian issues.[21]

From 2007 to 2019, for the Année Francophone internationale, he published the annual report on Georgia, which includes chapters on politics, the economy, society, culture, and science.[22] [23] [24] [25]

In 2013 and 2014, he was nominated to be a consultant for Georgian immigration in the French Ministry of the Interior, the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides. He validated the files of Georgian refugees in France from 1924 to 1952 before online publications.[26] He explained the process during a conference at the Musée de l'Immigration in Paris.[27] [28]

Books

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: fr. Mirian Méloua, ingénieur et journaliste, d'origine géorgienne. Colisée. 29 June 2013.
  2. Web site: Connaître le patrimoine géorgien. fr. La Dépêche du Midi. 2 March 2017.
  3. Web site: fr. Au Carnet du Monde. Décès. Le Monde. 26 January 1999. .
  4. Web site: მირიან მელუა. ka. National Parliament Library of Georgia. .
  5. Web site: fr. Le Parisien. Leuville, l'autre capitale de la Géorgie. 13 November 2004. .
  6. Web site: fr. Colisée. Véronique Chéidzé (1909–1986), fille du 1er président de Parlement géorgien. 29 November 2013. .
  7. Web site: Parliament of Georgia. The meeting of Irakli Kobakhidze with the descendants of the Chairman of the Parliament and the Constituent Assembly of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia, Nikoloz (Karlo) Chkheidze. 15 January 2019. .
  8. Web site: ka. TV Imedi Georgia. პარლამენტის თავმჯდომარის ვიზიტი საფრანგეთში. 15 January 2019. .
  9. Web site: fr. Colisée. Chalva Skamkotchaïchvili (1904–1949), ancien président de l'Association géorgienne en France. 18 February 2013. .
  10. "BNP, sécurité d'accès aux terminaux d'agences et exploitation bancaire", entretien avec Miriam Méloua, Secrétaire général à l'organisation et à l'informatique, Revue Informatique bancaire (in French), . 2 June 1993.
  11. Web site: fr. Shabex CH. Meloua Miriam. 5 August 2006. .
  12. Web site: fr. Shabex CH. BNP PARIBAS Service SA. 29 January 2003. .
  13. Web site: fr. Télécoms. 20 October 1994. Usine nouvelle. .
  14. Web site: Article sur l'organisation des systèmes informatiques et normes de fiabilité dans le e-commerce. AGEFI. fr. 2002. .
  15. Web site: Archivage Infos Brèves France Géorgie. fr. Samchoblo. December 2018. .
  16. News: Mirian. Melua. La presse française dans la révolution . La Vie en Géorgie. Tbilisi. 24 December 2003. Dès la veille de l’annonce de la démission du président Edouard Chevardnadze, les grands journalistes de la presse française étaient déjà à Tbilissi.
  17. Web site: Why president of Georgia's first lawmaking body Karlo Chkheidze was absent from his historic 1919 election. Mirian Melua. Tbilisi. Agenda Georgia. 12 March 2019. .
  18. Web site: fr. Regard sur l’Est. Géorgie: une langue et une nation en péril depuis des millénaires. 27 March 2008. .
  19. Web site: fr. Regard sur l’Est. Géorgie : analyse de l'élection présidentielle 2018. 30 November 2018. .
  20. Web site: De l'Europe des Balkans à l'Asie centrale. La Croix. Sebastien Maillard. 1 June 2012. fr. .
  21. Web site: Géorgie : information sur le traitement réservé aux membres du mouvement démocratique par les autorités et par la population, en général (novembre 2003-janvier 2005). Ref World. Immigration an Refugee Board of Canada. 9 February 2005. fr. .
  22. Web site: Agora Francophone. Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2015–2016. fr. 24 November 2015. .
  23. Web site: fr. Agora Francophone. Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2016–2017. 15 September 2016. .
  24. Web site: fr. Agora Francophone. Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2017. 6 January 2018. .
  25. Web site: fr. Agora Francophone. Géorgie. Retour sur l'année 2018. 2 January 2019. .
  26. Web site: Ouverture d'un portail d'accès aux archives de l'Ofpra en ligne. fr. OFPRA. Comité Histoire. 8 February 2018. .
  27. Web site: fr. Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration. Colloque : D'une après-guerre à l'autre, l'invention de l'Ofpra. 12 November 2014 . Aline Agoustures. Claire Mouradian. .
  28. Web site: fr. Conférence sur l'émigration géorgienne organisée par l'OFPRA. Samchoblo. 12 December 2014. .
  29. Web site: Les Bulletins. Art et histoire du Pays de Châtres . fr. 30 October 2015. .
  30. Web site: Publications. Art et Histoire du Pays de Châtres. fr. 30 October 2015. .
  31. Web site: Réfugiés et apatrides. De la nationalité géorgienne au statut d'apatride d'origine géorgienne . Presses universitaires de Rennes. fr. May 2017. .

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